9U "' ....., , Foreign Intrigue. The air is filled with mystery and romance. Touch. Feel. Sense. At the crossroads of the East and West there has always been an absorbing mIxture of polItiCS and pleasure We praise the people of Turkey for dJstllling Izmìra, the vodka that serves both Now you can enJOY the magic. the Illuslon, the JOY the excitement of rt all . . I tl! dka F()r pe()ple of g()()d taste. .V .. "'--" O OR-r " . . \\ ,.. '< '"" i'\ ,\;;I \ \ '- \ .......- "' 1'1 RoTS Co \t. 'i' -- ,$ '" <>t)-< o i.. , of. . "Oat iv.tr ft" \ , SEPTEMßER 2, -+, I 9 7 9 - '""'1 -- who kne\\ ll10re than we dId. rrhey eÀ- plained, and we listened. SOlnetilnes we replied, but not often, because those iIllportïnt ll1en froll1 the Party told u" that for the Party to grow and be strong and n1ake the right decisions it was necessary for people like us, who were poor and uneducated, to take the dd vice of people who kn61v. \Vhat the) said was tl ue. Therc was no libert) before. rhere were stil1 padroni who would knock on your door on the last night in ] ul) and if you didn't give theln your garden vegetables and YOUI wine and olive oil Of offer your wife to clean their vil1as-you were out on the first of August with nowhere to go. But the Part) changed that. They sa\-v that the nz['zzadria laws were changed. And the laws about children working. Now a bO)1 can stay In school for eight years and no one has the right to take hiIn out. The I e was Alfredo, born in '46. A shepherd's son, and now he could be anything he wanted. I told hilll, 'You can be a pharlllacist if you like. You can be a clerk in a big bank. Or a veterinarian, like ÐOll1enico Spi- na's son-in-law.' Thanks to the Party, my son is dottor (', like the son of a lnil- lionairL. The Party has lnade thL!ll brothers. T t has n1adc us all brothers. I worked for twenty-five years aftel the war. I had eighty sheep to sellIn order to buy this land and build this house. I n1ade one lnillion five hundred thou- sand lire froll1 the sheep, but it was not I enough, and I thought 1 would have to beg at the bank for a loan. It was n1) friendç., in the P clrty who saved ll1C. Benetti, Filippini, Spina. They said, 'Basta! Enough of banks. \Ve are YOUI brothers.' And they lent lne lnore than a lnillion lIre. Roberto Filippini took SOll1e of the ll10ney he was savIng for when the law tells hin1 he can bu his land froln his padrone-you see how Filippini lives, like a pauper, but he has ten, lnaybe even twenty l11il- lion lire in hi" n1d ttre s, dnd he took SOlne of that lnoney and gave it to Illt, and charged lne anI) five per cent in- terest on the loan. Benetti didn't charge at all. Spina charged nine and a half per cent-hut it was on principle, he said, that he charged lne. He said that since all ownersh:p vy as wrong it was really for the governlnent to pay for ('1 new house and let lne use it. Libcro. In !)oll1cnico Spin('l\ COlnInlu1islll, ever)- 1 . . f " t llng IS reL. u I t has been ten year,; since M. :l rin sold his sheep. He would have liked to keep then1, he says. They were good sheep, and heginning to bring in mon- I ey, bu t i\lfredo was at the universit), I there was no one to help hÜn, and .:1 > z a u ,..... < >- :::::; ê z < ....... - ;; @